Hospital emergency departments must put infection control ‘top of their agenda’
Hospital emergency departments in the UK have been urged to return infection prevention and control to the “top of their agendas” or risk putting patients’ lives at risk, after a report revealed standards have slipped since the pandemic.
It warned that both staff and patients are still at risk from contracting Covid-19 and called on healthcare workers to get vaccinated against the virus, as well as getting their flu jabs.
The three-year quality improvement programme (QIP) by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) gathered data on more than 65,000 patients
